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  Lesson- A Letter To God   Long Answer (LA) Type Questions  - 8 marks each   Q.1 How does the character of Lencho inspire us to have faith in God and remain calm in difficult situation?   Ans. Lencho, a hardworking and poor farmer, always worked as an ox in the field. He worked very hard to support his family and fulfil their needs. He was an optimist, so when his crops were completely destroyed by the hailstorm, he became worried about his family. But, he believed that God would help him in this difficult situation. Lencho was an innocent atheist who did not know that there was no such a living person as God who could send him money to fulfil his needs. But due to his firm faith in God, he requested him to send him hundred pesos. His firm faith in God made him angry when he found only seventy pesos in the envelope and he called the post office employees a “bunch of crooks”. He believed that they had stolen his money beacuse God could not do such a mistake. Thi...

 Unseen Passage (Class IX) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [8] Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. He lit up the world with his invention of electric light. Without him, the world might still be a dark place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented phonograph, motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new. Thomas A. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old. Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother. A former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mechanical things at home. When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a new...

Unseen Passage (Class X)   Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in trifles.  It is the desire to put those whom we meet perfectly at their ease, and save them from every kind of petty discomfort and annoyance.  The limited part of benevolence called politeness requires only an inclination to make them happy temporarily, while they are in our presence, and this can be done without any sacrifice on our part or only with the slight sacrifice of personal comfort. Politeness is said to be one of the important characteristics of a civilized person.  Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.  It must be implemented in every walk of life.  When we deal with people elder to us we are polite.  But an honest polite person is polite with everyone – people of lower status, workers and even children.  Not only with human but also with animals, we much be polite as they are our helper...

 Unseen Passage (class IX) 2.  Read the following passage carefully :       (12)   It’s amazing how we grow from careless kids to responsible teens. What happens in the course that makes us responsible now? It’s  the seed that we sow in the beginning  which grows and becomes a huge tree. As a kid, I used to read a lot of story books. In one particular book, I read a story of a bird. It described a male bird which takes a lot of pain to build a nest and the female bird takes shelter in it and nourishes the baby. When the bird learns to fly, the whole family flies off to a different place leaving behind the beautiful nest for other birds to grow their family in it. It made me wonder. How could they so easily sacrifice their house built with so much effort? One night, when I was deep in sleep, I got this particular dream. I was walking miles on the endless road, totally isolated but lined with beautiful trees on either side. Fascinated b...

   Read the passage carefully: (Unseen Passage for class X)   A gadget which makes water out of air could become the greatest househo1d invention since the microwave. Using the same technology as a dehumidifier   the Water Mill is able to create a ready supply of drinking water because it can always get it from an unlimited source—the air ． The company behind the machine says not only does it offer an alternative to bottled water in developed countries, but it is a solution for the millions who face a daily water shortage ． The machine works by drawing in wet air through a filter and over a cooling instrument which changes it into water droplets . The condensed water is passed through a self-sterilising chamber that uses microbe-busting UV light to eradicate any possibility of disease or other infections.  Finally, it is filtered and passed through a pipe to the owner’s fridge or kitchen tap.   It can produce up to 12 liters a day . The Water Mill will also...

    READING COMPREHENSION   (Class X) 1)  Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow : - ( 12  Marks) Happiness is like the sun, it is often hidden by the clouds of thoughts worries and desires. We have to scatter and dissolve them to experience happiness. You don’t have to create happiness. All you have to do is calm your mind, because when there is  a quiet mind and inner peace, there is happiness. Happiness is not something that is not far away and unattainable. Happiness does not depend on circumstances, objects or events. It is an inseparable part of our consciousness, of our essence, but hidden and covered from sight by our thoughts, desires and worries. The mind is always in constant race from one thought to another, from one worry to another. It constantly moves from one object or task to another, never standing still. This restlessness hides the happiness that is within you.  It is like a choppy sea that hi...